swap_pager: out of swap space, swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Mon Apr 4 20:05:56 UTC 2011


On Apr 4, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Paul Chany wrote:
> I follow the link: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-space.html
> 
> I did create a swapfile, and run again command: '# make install clean'.
> Since thet it being running on my old Toshiba laptop that had 64 MB RAM and 16 MB swap space but with swapfile it has much more VM.
> 
> Thanks!

You're most welcome.  With only 64MB of RAM, you probably want at least 256MB of swapspace handy, but that depends on what you are running, of course...

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck



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